Quotes About Roots

I am from a rebel blood line.

I think it's important to recall... what you remember your grandmother making, where you're from and the foods you enjoyed as a child yourself, and pass that information off to your kids.

I received a considerable personal response to my part in 'Roots.'

'Roots' did show that the audience would be receptive to black talent and a black story.

I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art.

When I was in high school and first starting to drive by myself, I listened to Wu Tang in the car, and I recognized their soul and R&B roots.

I keep in touch with these people who knew me long before I got a record deal.

My family has existed in eastern Kentucky for as long as there are records. If you're familiar with the famous Hatfield-McCoy family feud back in the 1860s, '70s and '80s in the United States, my family was an integral part of that.

I cut all my early records in Nashville, so I guess that makes me country. I call it country pop, but my love of the blues is in there, too.

I admire Kings of Leon. I think their records are amazing. Just from hanging out with them, I can say they're good guys. It's cool to see that they get to do what they love. But I think they clearly have an appreciation for where they came from, and it has shaped who they are.

Growing up, we had folk records.

To learn the history of the banjo is to recover the actual history of America.

For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.

We have to redefine what we mean when we say, 'Who are your people?' 'Where are you from?'

Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.

Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.

The fact of the matter is that I'm never going to be Dale Earnhardt Jr. or Chase Elliott. You're not going to have that connection, the hardcore roots with the fans.

I was raised by some very grounded, hardworking, Middle America parents.

I'm from Harlem, born and raised there.

I don't know who I would be if I weren't this child from Harlem, this woman from Harlem. It's in me so deep.

I've got deep roots in Kalamazoo, with a grandfather, Harold Allen, who was a big part of Upjohn Co. for many years as the corporate secretary and friends with W. E. Upjohn.

I am from Hawaii. But I am not Hawaiian. I am full Samoan.

Some people's parents listened to the Beatles... but my family is Alquimia, Celia Cruz, and Carlos Vives - this old, rich Colombian music. I loved hearing that while I was growing up.

To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.